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Liking, as the name suggests serves the purpose of showing your peers that you approve of their activities. Often user’s gage their popularity based on the number of Likes they receive for their activities.

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Keep in mind:

Free does not equals free on commercial social networks like Facebook or Twitter because you will always be the product

Are you annoyed by all the commercials that get in your way when surfing the web? By participating on this commercial social networks you are encouraging the commercial consolidation of the entire internet

There are non commercial alternatives like Diaspora which gives you full ownership of your data

What you now think is cool will not be cool in a couple of years. Your profile can be deleted but the Internet will never forget it

The invisible audience on the Internet is really invisible. Don't think that by setting up groups and making your profile private you solve it! Once your data is online many invisible things are happening with it!

Getting personalized content is very convenient but the world is made up from contrasting ideas and like minded people can narrow your general knowledge.

Logging to all different platforms with your Facebook account which is mostly your genuine identity is killing the anonymity on the internet. With your real identity you came up more trustworthy but anonymity is very important for the freedom of speech